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File Description
| Alt ID: | rand0249 |
| Title: | Palmers Crossing Community Center opening (2) |
| Author: | Randall, Herbert, 1936- |
| Subject and Keywords: | Civil rights movements |
| Subject and Keywords: | Community centers |
| Subject and Keywords: | Palmers Crossing (Miss.) |
| Subject and Keywords: | Randall, Herbert, 1936- |
| Description: | Guests at the party celebrating the opening of the Palmers Crossing Community Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 18, 1964, enjoy refreshments on the grass outside the building. Local resident Georgia Johnson, sitting with her back to the building on the right, is the third person seated from the foreground. Freedom School student Jimmella Stokes sits in the second chair from the left with her back to the camera. Sitting left of center wearing a white flower print dress and leaning backward is volunteer Phyllis Cunningham, State Director of the Freedom Summer Health Clinics. Near her, kneeling on the grass, is Freedom School student Curtis Ducksworth. |
| Publisher: | University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. (electronic version) |
| Other Contributors: | Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. |
| Date: | (YYYY-MM-DD) 1964-07-18 (original) |
| Date: | (YYYY-MM-DD) 2001-04-17 (digital reproduction) |
| Resource Type: | Image |
| Format: | (Extent) Digital reproduction of 1 black-and-white photograph. |
| Source: | Box 2, Folder 9 M351-249 |
| Relation: | IsPartOf M351 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. |
| Relation: | IsPartOf the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. |
| Coverage: | (Time Period) July 18, 1964 |
| Rights: | Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |